Re: Wilhelm Roentgen

[Free Spirit <FRANK@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu>]

>From:	SMTP%"radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu"  8-NOV-1995 14:37:30.49

>Historians say Roentgen was a plodder, a competent scientist but no genius.

	Well, the first emission of electrons from a hot filament to a
	second electrode (called a plate) which was the basis of all
	electronics, and the foundation of X-ray generation was originally
	called the "Edison Effect."

	Edison discovered it, and saw no possible use for it, so who
	was "no genius?"

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